Long, thorough review of Fedora Workstation 42 Gnome edition, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with Ryzen 5 processor, AMD graphics, and NVMe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install usage, including look and feel, font clarity, better but still bad dark theme, ergnomic and speed considerations of Gnome and Gnome Classic desktops, necessary customization with Gnome Tweaks, extensions and icons, new installer wizard and associated problems, failed first inst...| www.dedoimedo.com
Happy, enthusiastic article showcasing an SSD upgrade on a 10-year-old Lenovo G50 laptop with i3 processor, integrated graphics and 8 GB of RAM, including overview of the existing eight-boot setup on HDD, numerous ergonomic and functional reasons for the operating system choice - Kubuntu 24.04, first installation on mechanical storage for comparison purposes, second installation on SSD with encryption, various problems and annoyances with the Calamares wizard, new Plasma session look and feel...| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of Upscayl, a free, open-source, cross-platform AI-powered image enhancer tool, tested in Linux on a 10-year-old laptop with a hybrid graphics - Nvidia PRIME On Demand setup, covering simple installation, truly offline mode, look and feel, performance and quality of output using a variety of photos, scaling factor, different models, limitations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Grumpy, mostly negative review of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS, tested on a 10-year-old laptop with hybrid Intel and Nvidia graphics and recent SSD upgrade, covering live session, installation, and post-install usage, including bland look and feel, sluggish mouse pointer, non-intuitive partitioning and encryption step, blurry installer wizard slides, enormous difficulties with the graphics driver setup, lack of GUI-driven drivers utility, use of CLI-driven drivers tool recommended autoinstall option and...| www.dedoimedo.com